The Socialist 22 February 2007

Bush & Blair: Get out of Iraq

Iraq 'surge' doomed to failure

Italy: Thousands march against US military base

No to Trident!

North Korea: Talks achieve new accord

Anti-war, anti-nuclear, anti-capitalist? Read the socialist!

Students can defeat fees

Another profit-making racket

Living in debt - with no advice

Defend further education

The politics of socialism

Justice for the Shrewsbury pickets

Children at the sharp end of British capitalism

Banking billionaires

Drug companies squeeze profits out of health

Hospitals crisis worsens

Fighting homophobia

Climate change - we have to act now

CWI world congress: How will new workers' parties be built?

Valentine's day protest

Unique Care workers plan more protests

Israeli postal workers storm trade union HQ

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Hospitals crisis worsens

MORE THAN a third of hospitals and primary care trusts (PCTs - bodies that pay for local services) are not expected to 'balance their books' this financial year, according to the most recent forecasts.

These 'deficits', that only exist because of the peculiarities of New Labour's pro-market health policies, are forecast to total £1.32 billion.

That will mean more threats to hospitals, more ward closures, more jobless nurses and more attacks on NHS workers' living standards. NHS campaigners must keep up pressure on the health trade unions to organise a massive national protest demonstration against the health service cuts.

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